Christmas Movie Fun Facts Better than Any Gift Under the Tree

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Miracle on 34th Street is known today as a Christmas movie, but it was actually released in the early summer of 1947. The chief of 20th Century Fox, Darryl Zanuck, wanted to increase the profits. Since more people attend movies in the summer, he set it for May 2nd. His idea worked though, and it made $2,650,000 in the US alone.

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The More You Know

  • More people are bitten each year by New Yorkers than by sharks.
  • A team of six women programmed the first digital computer.
  • If you take all the letters from the word "wizard" and swap them with opposite letters (a->z, b->y), it spells wizard backwards.
  • The oceans contain 200,000 different kinds of viruses.
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